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<h4><a name="Procedure">Procedure</a></h4>
<PRE>
   SpiceInt bsrchc_c ( ConstSpiceChar  * value,
                       SpiceInt          ndim,   
                       SpiceInt          lenvals,
                       const void      * array   ) 
</PRE>
<h4><a name="Abstract">Abstract</a></h4>
<PRE>
 
   Do a binary earch for a given value within a character string array. 
   Return the index of the first matching array entry, or -1 if the key 
   value was not found. 
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<h4><a name="Required_Reading">Required_Reading</a></h4>
<PRE>
 
   None. 
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<h4><a name="Keywords">Keywords</a></h4>
<PRE>
 
   ARRAY,  SEARCH 
 

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<h4><a name="Brief_I/O">Brief_I/O</a></h4>
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   VARIABLE  I/O              DESCRIPTION 
   --------  ---  -------------------------------------------------- 
   value      I   Key value to be found in array. 
   ndim       I   Dimension of array. 
   lenvals    I   String length.
   array      I   Character string array to search. 

   The function returns the index of the first matching array 
   element or -1 if the value is not found. 
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<h4><a name="Detailed_Input">Detailed_Input</a></h4>
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   value       is the key value to be found in the array.  Trailing blanks
               in this key are not significant:  string matches found
               by this routine do not require trailing blanks in
               value to match that in the corresponding element of array.

   ndim        is the dimension of the array. 

   lenvals     is the declared length of the strings in the input
               string array, including null terminators.  The input   
               array should be declared with dimension 

                  [ndim][lenvals]

   array       is the array of character srings to be searched.  Trailing
               blanks in the strings in this array are not significant.
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<h4><a name="Detailed_Output">Detailed_Output</a></h4>
<PRE>
  
   The function returns the index of the specified value in the input array. 
   Array indices range from zero to ndim-1.

   If the input array does not contain the specified value, the function 
   returns -1. 
 
   If the input array contains more than one occurrence of the specified
   value, the returned index may point to any of the occurrences.
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<h4><a name="Parameters">Parameters</a></h4>
<PRE>
 
   None. 
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<h4><a name="Exceptions">Exceptions</a></h4>
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   1) If ndim &lt; 1 the function value is -1.  This is not considered
      an error.

   2) If input key value pointer is null, the error SPICE(NULLPOINTER) will 
      be signaled.  The function returns -1.

   3) The input key value may have length zero.  This case is not
      considered an error.

   4) If the input array pointer is null,  the error SPICE(NULLPOINTER) will 
      be signaled.  The function returns -1.

   5) If the input array string's length is less than 2, the error
      SPICE(STRINGTOOSHORT) will be signaled.  The function returns -1.
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<h4><a name="Files">Files</a></h4>
<PRE>
 
   None 
 </PRE>
<h4><a name="Particulars">Particulars</a></h4>
<PRE>
 
   A binary search is performed on the input array. If an 
   element of the array is found to match the input value, the 
   index of that element is returned. If no matching element 
   is found, -1 is returned. 
 </PRE>
<h4><a name="Examples">Examples</a></h4>
<PRE>
 
   Let array be a character array of dimension 

     [5][lenvals]

   which contains the following elements:

      &quot;BOHR&quot;
      &quot;EINSTEIN&quot;
      &quot;FEYNMAN&quot;
      &quot;GALILEO&quot;
      &quot;NEWTON&quot;

   Then

      <b>bsrchc_c</b> ( &quot;NEWTON&quot;,   5, lenvals, array )    ==   4
      <b>bsrchc_c</b> ( &quot;EINSTEIN&quot;, 5, lenvals, array )    ==   1
      <b>bsrchc_c</b> ( &quot;GALILEO&quot;,  5, lenvals, array )    ==   3
      <b>bsrchc_c</b> ( &quot;Galileo&quot;,  5, lenvals, array )    ==  -1
      <b>bsrchc_c</b> ( &quot;BETHE&quot;,    5, lenvals, array )    ==  -1
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<h4><a name="Restrictions">Restrictions</a></h4>
<PRE>
 
   1)  The input array is assumed to be sorted in increasing order. If 
       this condition is not met, the results of <b>bsrchc_c</b> are unpredictable.

   2)  String comparisons performed by this routine are Fortran-style:
       trailing blanks in the input array or key value are ignored.
       This gives consistent behavior with CSPICE code generated by
       the f2c translator, as well as with the Fortran SPICE Toolkit.
      
       Note that this behavior is not identical to that of the ANSI
       C library functions strcmp and strncmp.
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<h4><a name="Literature_References">Literature_References</a></h4>
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   None 
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<h4><a name="Author_and_Institution">Author_and_Institution</a></h4>
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   N.J. Bachman    (JPL)
   W.M. Owen       (JPL) 
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<h4><a name="Version">Version</a></h4>
<PRE>
 
   -CSPICE Version 1.1.0, 07-MAR-2009 (NJB)

       This file now includes the header file f2cMang.h.
       This header supports name mangling of f2c library
       functions.

       Header sections were re-ordered.

   -CSPICE Version 1.0.0, 26-AUG-2002 (NJB) (WMO)
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<h4><a name="Index_Entries">Index_Entries</a></h4>
<PRE>
 
   search in a character array 
 </PRE>
<h4>Link to routine bsrchc_c source file <a href='../../../src/cspice/bsrchc_c.c'>bsrchc_c.c</a> </h4>

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